Background

Mr. Haim Saban serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Saban Capital Group, Inc. Mr. Saban serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Saban Music Group, Inc. He is the Founder of ABC Family Worldwide, Inc. He is the founder of Saban Capital Group, Inc. He has been the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of University of California since December 2004. He serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Saban Capital Group, Inc. He serves ... as the Chief Executive Officer at German Media Partners, LLP. He also serves as the Chief Executive Officer of KSF Corp. He is the Founder of BVS Entertainment, Inc. He also formed Saban Entertainment in 1988. He served as the Chief Executive Officer at ABC Family Worldwide, Inc, from 1997 to 2001. His foray into television began in 1988, when he formed Saban Entertainment. Under his guidance, the organization introduced to the U.S. the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. In 1995, he merged his company with Rupert Murdoch's Fox Kids Network. He launched a chain of recording studios that rapidly became the top supplier of music for television in Los Angeles in 1983. He established an independent record company that soon catapulted to the top of the European labels industry in 1975 in France. While in Israel, he built the country's premier tour promotion business. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of Univision Communications Inc. and has been its Director since April 2007. He served as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG until March 6, 2007 and also served as its Member of the Supervisory Board from January 1, 2007 to March 6, 2007. He has been a Director of the French broadcaster Television Francaise 1 SA since April 2003 and Directv Group Inc. since December 7, 2004. He serves as a Director of German Media Partners LLP and Societe Television Francaise 1. He serves as Member of Board of Managers of GT Brands Holdings, LLC. He served as the Chairman of Fox Family Worldwide, from 1997 to 2001. He serves as a Director of KSF Corp. He serves as a Trustee of The Brookings Institution. He served as a Member of Board of Regents at University of California. He served as a Director of DIRECTV, Inc. from December 7, 2004 to August 4, 2010. He served as a Director of DIRECTV from December 7, 2004 to August 4, 2010. He served as a Director of TF1 Group since April 24, 2003. He served as a Member of the Board of Regents till September 2004. In 2002, he founded the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and he chairs its International Advisory Council. Mr. Saban, with his wife started the Saban Family Foundation in 1999. He served in the Israeli Defense Force. He attended an agricultural school.

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